Sara Osman is a graduate student at UMBC in the Master of Arts in Instructional Systems Development: English as a Second Language program.
After she graduates this May, Sara will be moving to Kazakhstan to teach English as a second language in a Kazakh institution of higher education. All classes at this institution will be taught in English, not just the English class.
More background details
She will live in Almaty, Kazakhstan with her Kazakh fiancé
She speaks fluent Russian but not Kazakh
She is currently within the USMAI system, so she has access to similar databases as UMCP.
Our Process:
Allison asked her if she would be willing to have research done for her trip to Kazakhstan
The group then came together to brainstorm some things to ask her about and Allison sent her an email
Sara's response was open-ended, but she did indicate that she would be interested in:
digital storytelling
sources that were easily accessible from Kazakhstan
sources that focused on the social elements of teaching language rather than grammar
Some other issues we took into consideration:
different system, unknown level of resources, technologies, and support
teaching British English rather than American English
By: Rudi Bracaglia, Jacqueline Carrell, Rosie Hanneke,
Allison Rein, Sarah Reynolds, Laura Travis
(Language, Linguistics & Literature Group)
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